CIS hosted a panel discussion focusing on the impact of immigration on both population growth and the working-age share of America's population. The starting point for conversation was the recent report by the Center's Director of Research, Dr. Steven Camarota. Video and transcript will be posted when available.

CIS hosted a panel discussion focusing on the impact of immigration on both population growth and the working-age share of America's population. The starting point for conversation was the recent report by the Center's Director of Research, Dr. Steven Camarota. Video and transcript will be posted when available.

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Judges have pointed to the opinions of the civil service when striking down White House policies.

Washington is hotly debating whether President Trump's wall-building falls within the powers that Congress has delegated to him. But the bureaucracy has been eroding the president's executive power with much less fanfare. Deference to the "experts" in the "non-partisan" civil service has weakened the principle that government officials who are not accountable to the voters require oversight by those who are. Bureaucrats are now thought to deserve their own independent power base, and the president’s rejection of their expertise can be ruled illegal.

The Trump administration has been lauding the seizure of virtually all of the previously held territory of the ISIS "caliphate" — the remnants of which are now holed up in a single town in Syria, fighting a fierce street-by-street battle to the death. The administration cites it as evidence of the functional demise of ISIS as an entity, although some experts have disputed this, pointing to a diaspora of thousands of fighters who have dispersed, choosing instead to flee and fight another day.

If the news is depressing (i.e., causing one to be blue), as it is, then the old wedding refrain could easily be applied to this week's EB-5 headlines. That's the immigrant investor program that sells a family-sized batch of green cards to those aliens investing $500,000 in a government-approved, but not guaranteed, investment.

The problem, as USCIS does not explain, is that some immigrant families in the States force young, U.S.-born minors (usually female) to marry older aliens from, for example, the family's village overseas, giving that alien a green card and denying the young woman the right to fall in love and marry someone of her own choosing.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.